R. Narasimhan

Often referred to as the Bhisma of Computer Science and Technology in India, Narasimhan made significant contributions to the development of computer science education, research, and technology in India in the early...

Clifford Alan Pickover

Member of the team that worked on design-automation workstations and developed code for IBM's IntelliStation, Pickover is an American author, editor, inventor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science...

Walter F. Bauer

Pioneer in the use of electronic computers and founder of Informatics General Corporation, Bauer distinguished himself as a research digital computer engineer. During World War II, he served as a weather officer...

Seymour Ivan Rubinstein

Director of the development of WordStar — the first truly successful commercial program for the personal computer — Rubinstein gave the general population reasonably priced access to word processing for the first...

Benjamin Zorn

Co-developer of Nozzle and Zozzle, programs that detect and protect browsers against JavaScript-based malware, Zorn has also led the Software Design and Implementation Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, as part of...

John D. Carmack

Co-founder and leading programmer of id Software and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace, Carmack is a pioneering figure in computer graphics and game development. Softdisk, a computer company in Shreveport, Louisiana, hired...

Daniel Karrenberg

Pioneer of the Internet in Europe, Karrenberg is a computer scientist who has focused on inventing, designing, and implementing Internet-related systems, especially those that collect and analyze data about the Internet itself....

Bill Atkinson

Creator of HyperCard and co-founder of General Magic, Atkinson was also part of the Apple Macintosh development team and creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application, among others. He also designed and implemented...

Jan Camenisch

Co-inventor of Identity Mixer, a unique cryptographic protocol suite for privacy-preserving authentication and transfer of certified attributes, Camenisch is a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography. He has served...

Matthew (Matt) David Welsh

Co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project, Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer. He has also served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University School of Engineering...

Wesley W. Chu

Pioneer researcher in file allocation and directory design for distributed databases, Chu's work aided the design and development of domain name servers and current cloud computing systems. He has served as a...

Janet Emerson Bashen

Regarded as the first African American woman to obtain a web-based software patent, Bashen earned that distinction through her invention of LinkLine, a web-based EEO software application designed to assist with equal...

Sidney (Sid) K. Meier

Founder of Firaxis Games and creator of "Civilization," Meier has made landmark contributions to the video game industry. In 1982, along with Bill Stealy, he co-founded MicroProse, where the "Civilization" franchise first...

Yogen Dalal

Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...

David Michael Ungar

Co-creator of the Self programming language, Ungar developed the prototype-based, object-oriented language with Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. He described himself as "an out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys the...

Brian Keith Reid

Known for developing the Scribe word processing system and pioneering the use of descriptive markup, Reid earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and then worked in...

Herbert Freeman

Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, and machine vision, Freeman published numerous works on geometric patterns from '61 and co-founded, with Azriel Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland,...

Steve McConnell

Named one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine in 1998, alongside Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, McConnell has worked on the TrueType project under...

Carl Adam Petri

Developer of Petri nets for modeling distributed systems, Petri introduced the concept in his Ph.D. thesis in 1962, where he originally called them communicating automata. Afterwards, Petri served as department head at...

Qiang Yang

Leader of research teams that won the 2004 and 2005 ACM KDDCUP international competitions on data mining, Yang has served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at...